A group of university researchers in Oklahoma are trying to patent a new cut of steak, which would provide their university with a healthy revenue stream if the patent is licensed to meat processors.
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During the golden age of the unregulated food industry, Chicago slaughterhouses boasted that they processed every part of the animal except for the squeal. How times have changed: agricultural businesses…
Novartis sought to charge A$26,000 a year for its anti-cancer drug, compared with A$2,000 per year for a generic copy.
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Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis this week lost a seven-year legal battle over a drug patent in India. It’s certainly a win for those in India who use the drug, and for patients in India more generally…
“It seems patent trolls are here to stay, but that might not be the case for much longer.”
K.G.Hawes
Can podcasting be patented? If you are an instigator of what’s being referred to as the SHIELD Act – introduced into US Congress last month – the answer would seem to be no. If you represent a US company…
There’s nothing worse than running out of paracetamol – and it’s much more serious in a hospital.
Zokah
The risk we’ll fall short of essential medicines has increased dramatically over the past decade, largely due to policy shifts in patent regulation and a boom in pharmaceutical innovation that began in…
Lightbulb moments come at any time – but how do we protect them?
Adriano Agulló
The concept of protecting ideas and innovation by legal means dates back to antiquity. But many of our existing laws are under strain, their suitability and ultimate purpose called into question.
Here…
Collaboration leads to higher quality, lower costs and greater flexibility.
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IDEAS AND OWNERSHIP: The concept of protecting ideas and innovation by legal means dates back to antiquity. But many of our existing laws are under strain, their suitability and ultimate purpose called…
Companies too often replace genuine innovation with regulatory shenanigans.
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IDEAS AND OWNERSHIP: The concept of protecting ideas and innovation by legal means dates back to antiquity. But many of our existing laws are under strain, their suitability and ultimate purpose called…
Classic patenting norms are increasingly being modified for strategic purposes.
CoastConFan
IDEAS AND OWNERSHIP: The concept of protecting ideas and innovation by legal means dates back to antiquity. But many of our existing laws are under strain, their suitability and ultimate purpose called…
Having a patent may increase financial returns by between 40% and 50%.
Xurxo Martínez
IDEAS AND OWNERSHIP: The concept of protecting ideas and innovation by legal means dates back to antiquity. But in the age of the internet and multinational business models, many of the existing laws are…
How can we best reward creators and those who benefit from their creations?
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IDEAS AND OWNERSHIP: The concept of protecting ideas and innovation by legal means dates back to antiquity. But in the age of the internet and multinational business models, many of the existing laws are…
Software patenting was a fringe activity for the first 20 years of the software industry.
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What would the software industry look like without patents?
It’s a question worth asking in the context of Apple’s recent body blow to Samsung,
which will see Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 kept off Australian…
Patent acquisition is a delicate game of balance and counterbalance.
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The patent wars took a bizarre turn this week.
Samsung, currently defending itself against a legal move by Apple to have four Samsung smartphones and tablets banned from America due to alleged patent…
It can be hard to know where the next bit of hypercharged rhetoric will come from.
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If you believe the hype, the “patent wars” are well and truly underway.
Google announced last week it will buy Motorola Mobility to get access to 15,000 of the handset manufacturer’s patents and HTC…
The battles currently being waged raise serious questions about patent law.
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The mobile patent wars, it seems, have reached Australian shores.
On Monday, representatives of Apple and Samsung were in the Australian Federal Court, fighting it out over Samsung’s Galaxy Tab tablet…
Banning patents on biological agents could see capital for innovative medicines dry up.
Read the argument for the proposed legislation
No one can deny that improved medical treatments and equity of access to them are essential to improving our community’s quality of life. Unfortunately…
The Bill seeks to close the loophole opened by the US Patent Office 30 years ago.
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Read the argument against the proposed legislation
Patents are only to be for granted inventions – that’s the intent of the Patents Act 1990, it has been the law for nearly 400 years, and it’s also what…
